ACT Amazonian
Cooperation Treaty
AFWC African
Forestry and Wildlife Commission
ATO
African Timber Organization
CAM
Crassulacean Acid Metabolism
CAMPFIRE
Communal Areas Management Programme For Indigenous Resources
CATIE Tropical Agriculture Research and Higher
Education Centreculture Research and
CBD Convention on Biological Diversity
CBFM Community based forest management
CBFRM Community-based forestry resource
management
CBNRM Community-based
natural resource management
CCAB-AP
Consejo Centro Americano de Bosques y Áreas Protegidas
CF Community forest
CFMA Community Forest Management Agreement (The
Gambia)
CIFOR Centre for International
Forestry Research
CILSS Permanent
Interstate Committee for Drought Control in the Sahel
CIMMYT International Maize and Wheat Improvement
Centre
CITES Convention on
International Trade in Endangered Species
DANIDA Danish International Development
Aid
DWNP Department of Wildlife and
National Parks (Botswana)
EC LNV
National Reference Centre for Agriculture, Nature and Fisheries of the Ministry
of Agriculture, Nature Management and Fisheries of the Netherlands
ECOWAS Economic Community of West African States
Community of West African States E
EFAP Ethiopian Forestry Action
Programme
ESRA Economic and Social
Reform (Swaziland)
EU European
Union
FAO Food and Agriculture
Organization of the United Nations
FaWDA Forestry and Wildlife Development
Authority
FINNIDA Finnish International
Development Agency
FNC Forests National
Corporation (Sudan)
FPLP Forest Policy
and Legislation Project (Swaziland)
FRA
Forest Resource Assessment of FAO
GDP
Gross Domestic Product
GIS Geographical
Information Services
GNI Gross National
Income
GNP Gross National
Product
GPS Global Positioning
System
GTZ Deutsche Gezellschaft für
Technische Zusammenarbeitung
ICPD
Integrated Conservation and Development Project
ICRAF World Agroforestry Centre (formerly
International Centre for Research in Agroforestry)
ICRISAT International Crops Research Institute for
the Semi-Arid Tropics
IPGRI
International Plan Genetic Resources Institute
IRDC International Rural Development
Currents
ISP Internet service
providers
ITC International Trade
Centre
ITTO International Tropical
Timber Organization
IUCN World
Conservation Union
JFM Joint Forest
Management
JMA Joint Management
Agreement (Tanzania)
MEDaC Ministry of
Economic Development and Cooperation - Ethiopia
MTEC Ministry of Tourism, Environment and
Communication (Swaziland)
MoA Ministry
of Agriculture, Ethiopia
Nfp National
forest programme
NFPAs National
Forestry Priority Areas
NGO
Non-governmental Organisation
NGPME
Natural Gum Processing and Marketing Enterprise
NTFP Non-timber forest products
NWFP Non-wood forest products
ODA Overseas Development Administration
PA Protected areas
PCFMA Preliminary Community Forest Management
Agreement (The Gambia)
PF Primary
forest
PRA Participatory Rapid
Appraisal
PRSP Poverty reduction
strategy programmes
PSPs Permanent
Sample Plots
RIL Reduced Impact
Logging
SADC Southern Africa
Development Community
SADC-ELMS SADC's
Environmental and Land Management System
SEAMEO Southeast Asian Ministers of Education
Organization
SEARCA SEAMEO Regional
Centre for Graduate Study and Research in Agriculture
SFM Sustainable Forest Management
SIDA Swedish International Development Cooperation
Agency
SNTC Swaziland National Trust
Commission
SSA Sub-Saharan
Africa
TCA Tratado de Cooperación
Amazónica
TFAP Tropical Forest Action
Plan
TLA Tribal Land Act
(Botswana)
TRFs Tropical Rain
Forests
UNCCD Convention to Combat
Desertification in those Countries Experiencing Serious Drought and/or
Desertification, particularly in Africa
UNCED United Nations Conference on Environment and
Development
UNESCO United Nations
Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization
UNEP United Nations Environment
Programme
UNDP United Nations
Development Programme
UNFCCC United
Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change
UNICEF United Nations International Children's
Fund
USD United States
Dollar
VFA Village Forest Area
(Tanzania)
WB World Bank
WWF World Wide Fund for Nature
